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So, like this lady, my student loans were provided by Sallie Mae. My loans totaled about $40k, had no co-signer, and I came out of it with an Associates Degree and as a dropout (abandoning a Bachelors Degree).
Unlike her, my degree was for programming, and my first job started me at $10 an hour (low, but still not as terrible as I am at negotiating). And like her, I lived with family when I started working to lower costs, though I did pay rent to live with my folks.
My experience with paying off my loans is very different from hers, though. I paid my loans off before they apparently split that division off, because when I would make a payment, Sallie Mae let me specify which sub-loans I’d pay against (as I had a mix of federal student loans with fixed rates and private loans that weren’t fixed) and if I was paying against the interest or principal. I do recall, though, I had to specify I wanted to customize my payment, I didn’t get those options on the quick “make a payment” screen. So, I intentionally overpaid the monthly amount, targeted the private loans first, and paid against principal.
I had my $40k-ish 10 year loans paid off in 8 years and 1 month.
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@chaostheeternal Yeah, but if she knew how to money, she wouldn't have majored in literature.
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@chaostheeternal said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
sub-loans ... mix of federal student loans with fixed rates and private loans that weren’t fixed ... paying against the interest or principal ... customize my payment ... targeted the private loans first, and paid against principal.
@antiquarian said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@chaostheeternal Yeah, but if she knew how to money, she wouldn't have majored in literature.
If at the time you enter college (i.e. just equipped with high-school knowledge!) you need to master all these to understand what you're signing on, I'd say that the system is maybe a little over-complicated...
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@remi said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
If at the time you enter college (i.e. just equipped with high-school knowledge!) you need to master all these to understand what you're signing on, I'd say that the system is maybe a little over-complicated...
That's the nature of borrowing money, though. And if you refuse to listen to your parents or just have to go out and have that fabulous college experience at any expense (she literally talked about how much she wanted that) then you're going to have a bad time.
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@remi said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
If at the time you enter college (i.e. just equipped with high-school knowledge!) you need to master all these to understand what you're signing on, I'd say that the system is maybe a little over-complicated...
That's the nature of borrowing money, though. And if you refuse to listen to your parents or just have to go out and have that fabulous college experience at any expense (she literally talked about how much she wanted that) then you're going to have a bad time.
True.
To @remi's point, you'll get no argument from me that the entire higher education system in the US, including how it's "paid" for, is an utter swamp of vileness and corruption.
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I didn't realize what a bump stock was until this
https://youtu.be/K2IOZ-5Nk5k
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TLDR: pay for access to private polls that predict brexit wins. Short british pounds. Publicly announce that you "concede" to remainers to make even more money. Wait until final result. Profit.
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@bb36e said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
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- Translation: go pester the Chrome team. I shouldn't have to worry about whether their hacky feature works on my website. The claim that "This should be reason enough to not use the attribute" is ridiculous.
- Accessibility: go pester the screen reader makers. The label is there, and it's a very clear place for labels. They should be able to find it.
- Cognition: this one is valid, but it seems more about not using placeholder for more than a very simple hint/reminder that should be OK to miss.
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https://www.uvm.edu/~mrfrank/app/mecWords.php
Still waiting for results on 'frankfurter' when last I checked.
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A long, somewhat rambling read, but interesting:
Ask anyone who actually keeps sheep. Sheep are weird. Sheep are evolved to have a very different intelligence than humans. But sheep are not stupid. Sheep are not obedient. And sheep are definitely not easily led.
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We are not becoming docile, stupid, and blindly obedient. On the contrary, we are becoming sheep as the Old Stories understood sheep … intensely selfish, intensely intelligent (but only in an other-regarding way) and intensely dogmatic, willing to pursue a myopic behavior even unto death.
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A good shepherd once said that whoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. Of course, I also knew a good Dungeonmaster who said that being lawful good didn’t mean being lawful stupid, and turning the other cheek always seemed to be kinda stupid to me. Kinda sheeplike. But then I started keeping sheep, and my perspective changed. Sheep would never turn the other cheek. But a wolf would. A wolf would take a hit for the pack. It’s the smart play for the long game. As wise as serpents, you might say.
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@bb36e said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
A good shepherd once said that whoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. Of course, I also knew a good Dungeonmaster who said that being lawful good didn’t mean being lawful stupid, and turning the other cheek always seemed to be kinda stupid to me.
That has a specific meaning which makes a lot more sense if you interpret it completely literally.
Bear in mind that, throughout most of history, including the period in which this was given, being right-handed was considered the default, normal state. If you, being a right-handed, ordinary person, were facing down someone else in a tense confrontation, and went to strike them on the right cheek with your (default) right hand, this occurs as a backhanded slap. An insult and a provocation, but not an actual attack. A person could respond in various ways to this. The stupid response would be to get provoked by the person who was trying to provoke you, playing right into their hands.
The advice given here is to choose to avoid such stupidity. Don't let people provoke you with fake "attacks" that aren't actually putting you in danger of any harm. (Especially if you're a Jew living under Roman rule, with the legal system stacked against you already!) It has no bearing on self-defense against legitimate threats.
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Okay.
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@gribnit said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
https://www.uvm.edu/~mrfrank/app/mecWords.php
Still waiting for results on 'frankfurter' when last I checked.What is it?
Edit: If you're waiting on results, the CORS thing or another seems to make Chrome not attempt the request, you'll be waiting a while.
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@masonwheeler I'm no Bible expert, but that seems very far-fetched. OK, sure, the slap on the face definitely isn't a full blown punch (more like what we mean when we say, ahem, a "slap on the face"), but I think you're going to great length to justify the right/left difference when it's not really needed.
See e.g. this which clearly explains that yes, it meant "an insult" and not "a blow", but you don't need to go into complicated right or left side arguments to understand that (many translations omit this right/left bit entirely, but that could be that the translators missed the reference since they obviously wrote much later).
Also, the rest of the verse goes further than just "don't let yourself be provoked", unless you can find a good explanation as to why giving away your clothes is just "not being provoked".
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@remi And another note on that issue--that was specifically directed at his close disciples, those he was sending out into the world. Not to the masses.
The biggest obstacle to understanding the scriptures (or any text for that matter) is forgetting the context:
a) who was being talked to
b) what was their situation
c) what's the rest of the passage saying (even across chapter lines, as those are later inventions).Proof-texting is pointless and stupid. And words are used in many ways across different scriptures, so importing a definition from one chapter into another without considering context is bound to cause problems.
Note that none of this is unique to the Bible (or any other holy writ). This is true for all writing everywhere. It's just that holy writ tends to be a) older (so bigger changes in culture), b) more hotly-argued, and c) read by more people in different contexts.
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If you write code for a living, there’s a chance that at some point in your career, someone will ask you to code something a little deceitful – if not outright unethical.
This happened to me back in the year 2000. And it’s something I’ll never be able to forget.
The key takeway from this article:
As developers, we are often one of the last lines of defense against potentially dangerous and unethical practices.
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@bb36e and in a similar vein:
If we had a real profession, those programmers would be brought before that profession, investigated, and if found guilty, drummed out of the profession in disgrace.
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@tharpa indeed:
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@bb36e said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@tharpa indeed:
Luckily enough, the original iFramely cache for it is still there:
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https://codepen.io/MartijnCuppens/pen/MXojmw
This looks different in every browser.
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@pie_flavor said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
https://codepen.io/MartijnCuppens/pen/MXojmw
This looks different in every browser.For the :
div { margin: auto; width: 100px; height: 100px; outline: inset 100px green; outline-offset: -125px; }
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@zecc Wait. Am I to understand that Edge is the most correct in at least the first two examples?
The browser that used to crash if you MOVED OR RESIZED THE WINDOW TOO FAST?!
Will wonders never cease.
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@blakeyrat said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@zecc Wait. Am I to understand that Edge is the most correct in at least the first two examples?
The browser that used to crash if you MOVED OR RESIZED THE WINDOW TOO FAST?!
Will wonders never cease.
It's just an edge case.
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@blakeyrat said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@zecc Wait. Am I to understand that Edge is the most correct in at least the first two examples?
The browser that used to crash if you MOVED OR RESIZED THE WINDOW TOO FAST?!
Will wonders never cease.
Leave it to you to come up with the window resizing bugs.
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@blakeyrat said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Am I to understand that Edge is the most correct
Don't worry; it still has plenty of other bugs.
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https://itscode.red/posts/boschs-war-on-self-repair/
The bike industry, like many others is plagued with proprietary standards and incompatibilities but despite this you can still fix everything yourself with common tools even if the proprietary parts are heavily marked up, you are still able to buy and install them yourself. But one company would like to put an end to this, requiring you to return to an approved repairer for any servicing.
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Letter from Shenzhen
by Xiaowei R. WangChinese tech isn’t an imitation of its American counterpart. It’s a completely different universe.
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Interesting article on why you probably don't want your favorite app to go 64-bit. Makes a lot of good points (and some dubious ones, like the memory leak thing).
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In summary, if you have the choice, look for fuel pumps with raised keypads and horizontal card slots.
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@bb36e said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
This is why Mollweide is the One True Projection (although I wish people would stop saying the Mercator distortions were for political reasons instead of navigational).
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@mzh said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
I wish people would stop saying the Mercator distortions were for political reasons instead of navigational
The Mercator projection itself is indeed for navigational purposes (useful when you're not able to use more sophisticated systems to go along a Great Circle route; those are best plotted on a different family of projections) but that doesn't change the fact that the continued use of the projection for basic teaching descriptions of the world is a… politically convenient one for countries at high latitudes that have a history of having empires.
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@dkf said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
politicallyhistorically convenient one for countriesIf all you have seen is the same basic map then that is your view of the world. It's a difficult thing to change.
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@luhmann said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
If all you have seen is the same basic map then that is your view of the world. It's a difficult thing to change.
Personally, I'm fond of the stereographic projection since it maps great circles to straight lines and other circles to actual circles. And is useful in lots of areas of science as well.
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@JBert Oh boy, almost every single line of this article could spawn an entire garage thread...
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The octonions’ intimate connection to all the exceptional groups and other special mathematical objects has compounded the belief in their importance, convincing the eminent Fields medalist and Abel Prize–winning mathematician Michael Atiyah, for example, that the final theory of nature must be octonionic.
Sounds like posthumous vindication may be in store for Terry Pratchett.
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@boomzilla So does this mean Against The Day gets rewritten?
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A Spectre is Haunting Unicode
In 1978 Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry established the encoding that would later be known as JIS X 0208, which still serves as an important reference for all Japanese encodings. However, after the JIS standard was released people noticed something strange - several of the added characters had no obvious sources, and nobody could tell what they meant or how they should be pronounced. Nobody was sure where they came from. These are what came to be known as the ghost characters.
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@bb36e said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
https://itscode.red/posts/boschs-war-on-self-repair/
The bike industry, like many others is plagued with proprietary standards and incompatibilities but despite this you can still fix everything yourself with common tools even if the proprietary parts are heavily marked up, you are still able to buy and install them yourself. But one company would like to put an end to this, requiring you to return to an approved repairer for any servicing.
One wonders how this will interact with the unwillingness of many bike shops to fix any bike they haven't sold.
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@bb36e said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
A Spectre is Haunting Unicode
In 1978 Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry established the encoding that would later be known as JIS X 0208, which still serves as an important reference for all Japanese encodings. However, after the JIS standard was released people noticed something strange - several of the added characters had no obvious sources, and nobody could tell what they meant or how they should be pronounced. Nobody was sure where they came from. These are what came to be known as the ghost characters.
The solution seems to be very simple. They should be regarded as characters awaiting assignment. Later, when someone is in need of a new character, they can apply to use one of the unassigned ones.